A few days ago, I took the train to Rome, the Eternal City—capital of emperors, philosophers, poets, and saints.

Sometimes di decisions of individuals to betray a pesin or an idea fit get a significant impact on history and even ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

January — where we now sit, shivering, in our thermal underwear — is named after Janus. A two-faced god, symbolizing ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

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People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

After Julius Caesar’s death the Roman Senate declared him a god, a decision that transformed the political landscape. This episode reveals how the young Octavian adopted the title Divi Filius, “son of ...